Legal Opinion
Ralph Murrell v. Larry D. Bennett, Commissioner of Alabama Board of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1980No. 79-2025PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAY, Circuit Judge:
Ralph Murrell, an inmate of the Alabama State prisons, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the State Board of Corrections and other defendants on his complaint that he was deprived of his civil rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976). On review of the record, we find that summary judgment was unseasonably granted in this case. We therefore reverse.
Murrell is serving a life sentence for murder at Alabama’s Staton Correctional Center. In the papers he filed pro se, Murrell alleges that on July 14, 1978, during “pills call” at between 5:45 and 6:00…
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